Prose and politics with Julie Anderson

In an age in which we are all citizen journalists and political commentators on social media and the political blog has found a place in the mainstream media in a way undreamed of thirty years ago what place does political fiction have?

The power struggles, jealousies and rivalries, or alliances and betrayals of politicians, from Parliament, to White House to the town hall have always been fodder for the novelist and have often been adapted for the screen. Although elections - the ultimate nail-biting scenario of 'who will win?' - haven't formed the basis of fiction as often as you might think.

Our guest, the author Julie Anderson, discusses the future of the 'political novel' and the 'novel about politics', which are not, of course, necessarily the same thing, in the 21st century.